byron
westbrook
Artist and musician born in 1977 in Baton Rouge, LA, currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION:
2013 MFA Candidate, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College
1995-1998 attended University of Texas at Austin School of Fine Arts
1998 attended California Institute of the Arts, Music Technology Program
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE:
2004-present Technical Director at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES:
August 2008 HotelPupik @ Schloss Schrattenberg, Austria
January 2010 Diapason Gallery for Sound and Intermedia, Brooklyn, NY
AWARDS:
2008 Jerome Foundation Commission for Emerging Artists through Roulette Intermedium
EXHIBITIONS:
01.23.10 Brooklyn, NY "Room Within A Room" Sound Installation at Diapason Gallery
11.08.08 Brooklyn, NY “68 Footsteps (x8)” Sound Installation @ Diapason Gallery
08.29.08 Scheifling bei St. Lorenzen, Austria HotelPupik ’08 Residency Presentation.
“RadioWaves for Schrattenberg” Outdoor Sound Installation
06.10.08 New York, NY “Whispering/Talking/Singing” Sound Installation presented at Roulette Intermedium
02.01.08 ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY Apestaartje Records Festival
presenting an 8-channel sound Installation “68 Footsteps (x8)”
PERFORMANCES:
2010
- 04.18.10 CORRIDORS @ Fotofono, Brookyn, NY w/Aki Onda + Margarida Garcia Duo, Bryan Eubanks + Andrew Lafkas + Gill Arno + Tucker Dulin Quartet
- 04.08.10 CORRIDORS @ Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, organized by Philadelphia Sound Forum
- 04.01.10 CORRIDORS @ Roulette, New York, NY
- 03.07.10 Performing "Hotel Axe" by David Watson @ ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
- 03.04.10 Performing with Phill Niblock @ Bohemian National Hall, New York, NY
- 02.25.10 CORRIDORS @ Port d'Or, Brooklyn, NY w/Infinity Window, Prince Rama of Ayodhya, Isa Christ
- 02.04.10 CORRIDORS @ ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY w/Mike Wexler, Shelley Burgon+Maria Chavez
- 01.05.10 CORRIDORS @ Monkeytown Brookyn, NY w/Phill Niblock (also performing guitar with PN)
2009
- 11.20.09 CORRIDORS @ Abrons Arts Center New York, NY w/Chris Forsyth, Jack Rose
- 11.09.09 CORRIDORS @ ParisLondonWestNile Brooklyn, NY w/Maria Chavez, Mario Diaz de Leon+Doron Sadja
- 10.17.09 CORRIDORS @ Schoolhouse Brooklyn, NY w/Simon Berz+Bryan Eubanks+Ursula Scherrer+Andrew Lafkas, Barry Weisblat+Tucker Dulin, Phonographer's meeting incl. Michael Schumacher, o.blaat, Bruce Tovsky
- 09.18.09 CORRIDORS @ Monkeytown Brooklyn, NY w/Duane Pitre, Aidan Baker
- 08.08.09 Rhys Chatham's A Crimson Grail for 200 Guitars @ Lincoln Center Damrosch Park NYC
- 06.19.09 CORRIDORS @ The Joinery Dublin, Ireland
- 06.15.09 CORRIDORS @ Madame Claude Berlin, Germany
- 06.09.09 CORRIDORS @ velak-gala Vienna, Austria
- 06.08.09 CORRIDORS @ Rhiz Vienna, Austria w/ dirac
- 06.05.09 CORRIDORS @ Electronic Church Berlin, Germany
- 05.27.09 CORRIDORS @ Monkeytown Brooklyn, NY w/ Ben Vida, Siebren Versteeg, Natalie LeBrecht, Deborah Johnson
- 05.07.09 CORRIDORS @ Listen/Space Brooklyn, NY w/ Lauren Luloff, Mike Wexler
- 04.26.09 CORRIDORS @ Stairwell Gallery Providence, RI
- 04.25.09 CORRIDORS @ Upstate Artists GuildAlbany, NY
- 04.24.09 CORRIDORS @ lab synthèse Montreal, Quebec
- 04.23.09 CORRIDORS @ The Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT w/Brendan Murray
- 02.19.09 CORRIDORS @ The Stone, New York, NY
- 01.11.09 CORRIDORS @ Church of the Friendly Ghost, Austin TX, w/Carlos Villareal
2008
- 10.20.08
CORRIDORS @ AS220, Providence, RI w/ Eli Keszler, Alessandro Bosetti
- 10.19.08
CORRIDORS @ Axiom Gallery presented by NONEVENT, Boston, MA w/Alessandro Bosetti
- 10.18.08
CORRIDORS @ Mascher Dance Co-Op, Philadephia, PA w/Alessandro Bosetti
- 10.17.08
CORRIDORS @ 2640, Baltimore, MD w/Alessandro Bosetti + Peter B., John Berndt
- 10.16.08
CORRIDORS @ Listen Space, Brooklyn, NY w/Alessandro Bosetti, Chris Forsyth+Nate Wooley
- 10.10.08
Byron Westbrook and The Nelly Boyd Ensemble, Performing Sethwork By Phill Niblock, ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
- 10.08.08
CORRIDORS @ Fairchild Chapel, Oberlin, Ohio w/Mark McGuire (of Emeralds)
- 10.06.08
CORRIDORS @ Cinemat Bloomington, IN w/Alessandro Bosetti
- 10.05.08
CORRIDORS @ Art Damage Lodge, Cincinnati, OH w/C. Spencer Yeh, Alessandro Bosetti
- 10.04.08
CORRIDORS @ Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA w/Alessandro Bosetti
- 10.03.08
CORRIDORS @ Bowling Green State College of Music, Bowling Green, OH w/Alessandro Bosetti
- 10.02.08
CORRIDORS @ Lemp Arts, St. Louis, MO w/Alessandro Bosetti
- 09.27.08
CORRIDORS @ Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA w/Jon Mueller+Jason Kahn, Alessandro Bosetti
- 09.26.08
CORRIDORS @ Watkins College of Art, Nashville, TN w/Alessandro Bosetti
- 09.25.08
CORRIDORS @ Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN w/Alessandro Bosetti
- 09.24.08
CORRIDORS @ Nightlight, Chapel Hill, NC w/Alessandro Bosetti
- 09.17.08
CORRIDORS @ La Maroqinerie, Paris, France, w/Talibam! featuring Rhys Chatham, Peeesseye, Religious Knives
- 09.16.08
CORRIDORS @ 64, Paris, France (private performance)
- 09.14.08
CORRIDORS @ Les Voûtes, Paris, France w/Mick Turner (of Dirty Three)
- 09.13.09
CORRIDORS @ Schip, Brussels, Belgium
- 09.11.08
CORRIDORS @ Maria, Berlin, Germany w/Leslie Keffer, Pigs In the Ground
- 09.08.08
Artist Lecture + CORRIDORS performance @ Institute of Internedia, Prague, Czech Republic
- 08.29.08
Byron Westbrook presentation of RadioWaves for Schrattenberg Outdoor Sound Installation, HotelPupik ’08 Presentation.
- 08.__.08
Byron Westbrook Artist in Residence @ HotelPupik, Schrattenberg, Austria
- 07.16.08
CORRIDORS @ ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY w/Duane Pitre, Ilya Monosov
- 06.20.08
CORRIDORS @ Roulette Intermedium Festival of Mixology, NYC (Jerome
Foundation Commision)
- 06.15.08
CORRIDORS Interview + Performance on WKCR "Live Constructions"
- 05.31.08
CORRIDORS @ Red Room, Baltimore, MD
- 04.18.08
ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY performing in Duane Pitre Bowed Gruitar
Ensemble
- 03.27.08
CORRIDORS @ Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY w/Sawako, Loren Dent
- 03.06.08 CD
Release of "Guitar Trio is My Life" by Rhys Chatham's Guitar
Trio All-stars, Byron Westbrook featured on 01.27.07 performance
- 02.29.08
CORRIDORS @ ParisLondonNewYork, Brooklyn, NY Opening of GallerySpaceWorld,
w/Bryan Eubanks+Andrew Lafkas, Hell's Hills
- 02.01.08
Byron
Westbrook @ ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY Apestaartje Records Festival
presenting an 8-channel sound piece “68 Footsteps (x8)” w/ Mountains,
James Blackshaw, Chris Forsyth, Josef van Wissem, Tetuzi Akiyama
(click link for article)
- 01.11.08
CORRIDORS @ ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY w/Ateleia, The Holy Experiment
2007
- 11.10.07
CORRIDORS @ The Schoolhouse, Brooklyn, NY w/Bryan Eubanks+Andrew Lafkas,
Stefan Tcherepnin, Nonloc
- 10.__.07 CORRIDORS featured on London
ICA Experimental Music Podcast for month of October
- 10.11.07
CORRIDORS @ Exit Art Gallery, NYC w/Koen Holtkamp, Queens
- 09.23.07
Jonathan Kane's February @ ICA Boston, MA w/Mission of Burma
- 09.21.07
CORRIDORS @ Sonic Circuits Fest, Washington D.C. w/Koen Holtkamp, o.blaat,
Tony Conrad
- 07.27.07
CORRIDORS @ Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY w/Invisible Conga People, Total Life,
Dan Friel (click to hear audio)
- 06.28.07
Jonathan Kane's February @ Cake Shop NYC
- 06.27.07
CORRIDORS @ ISSUE Project Room Brooklyn, NY w/Michelle Nagai + Ursula
Scherrer
- 06.08.07
CORRIDORS @ Diapason Gallery for Sound NY w/Jason Ajemian
- 06.06.07
Experimental Intermedia, NYC performing Phill Niblock's G2/44, w/Text of
Light (Lee Ranaldo/Alan Licht), Katherine Liberovskaya, Ursula Scherrer
- 04.28.07
Jonathan Kane's February @ Southpaw Brooklyn, NY
- 04.21.07
CORRIDORS @ Monkeytown Brooklyn, NY w/Lichens, Hisham Bharoocha, David Daniell
- 03.29.07
CORRIDORS @ ISSUE Project Room Brooklyn, NY w/ Mario Diaz de Leon
- 03.09.07
CORRIDORS @ Exit Art Gallery, NYC w/ Invisible Conga People
- 02.03.07
CORRIDORS @ Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY w/ Nymph, Eystek, Bear in Heaven
- 01.27.07
Issue
Project Room, Rhys Chatham's "Guitar Trio Allstars": Jonathan
Kane, Ernie Brooks, and on guitar: Rhys Chatham,David Daniell, Kim Gordon,
Jonathan Kane, Alan Licht, Robert Longo, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo,
Colin Langenus, Byron Westbrook, and Adam Wills.(click for news
link)
- 01.14.07
CORRIDORS @ Tonic NYC with Sawako, Ethan Rose, Charles Atlas
2006
- 12.20.06
CORRIDORS @ House of Hearts Benefit Concert Brooklyn, NY with
Electroputas, Castanets, Mouthus
- 11.05.06
CORRIDORS @ Monkeytown Brooklyn, NY with Bryan Eubanks, Anette Krebs,
Sawako
- 09.20.06
Rhys
Chatham's Essentialist, Chicago, IL The Empty Bottle w/Jandek, Tim Hecker,
Jana Hunter (click for news/photo link)
- 09.17.06
Rhys Chatham's Essentialist, Detroit, MI Bohemian National Home
- 09.16.06
Rhys Chatham's Essentialist, Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom w/Clvlnd Gtr
- 09.15.06
Rhys Chatham's Essentialist, Buffalo, NY SoundLab
- 09.14.06
Rhys Chatham's Essentialist, New York, NY Tonic w/ Tony Conrad +
Performance of Phill Niblock's G2,44
- 09.12.06
Rhys Chatham's Essentialist, Purchase, NY Purchase University w/Talibam
- 09.11.06
Rhys Chatham's Guitar Army, Brooklyn, NY Issue Project Room. (Guitar Trio)
w/Growing
- 09.10.06
Rhys Chatham's Essentialist, New Haven, CT BAR w/Pansonic
- 09.09.06
Rhys Chatham's Essentialist, Boston, MA MassArt (non-event)
- 09.08.06
Rhys Chatham's Essentialist, Philadelphia, PA Community Education Center
- 09.07.06
Rhys Chatham's Essentialist, Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
- 09.06.06
Rhys Chatham's Essentialist, Asheville, NC The Orange Peel w/The
USAisamonster
- 09.05.06
Rhys Chatham's Essentialist, Knoxville, TN Bijou Theater w/TheUSAisamonster
- 09.03.06
Rhys
Chatham's Essentialist, Atlanta, GA EyeDrum Table of the Elements Bohrium
Festival Day 3: Essentialist World Premiere with Tony Conrad and Leif Inge
"9 Beet Stretch" (click
for news link)
- 09.02.06
Rhys
Chatham's Guitar Army, Atlanta, GA EyeDrum Table of the Elements Bohrium
Festival Day 2: Rhys Chatham's Guitar Army w/Deerhunter, One Umbrella (click
for news link)
- 08.20.06
CORRIDORS @ Tonic NYC w/Ateleia, Koen Holtkamp
- 07.07.06
CORRIDORS @ Lauren Luloff Believe/Make closing, Secret Project Robot
Gallery
- 06.13.06
CORRIDORS @ Cake Shop NYC w/ Eystek, Picastro, Bird Names
